Welcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 287 - Poe’s Views on Democracy and Donald Trump.When I started this weekly podcast over 4 years ago, my original intentions were to keep Poecentric - meaning only about the works, times, and...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 286 - an examination from a contemporary standpoint of one of Edgar Poe’s most famous stories - The Pit and the Pendulum.  And as you will hear very soon, this episode also marks the return of ...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 286 - Clinton and Collins: The Language of GodBefore we jump into this episode, I want to announce what is perhaps the most ambitious undertaking that Celebrate Poe has ever published - the 20...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 284 - Continuity and Progress.  This will mark the third and final episode - for now - dealing with President Obama - and I would like to look at Obama’s second Inaugural Address - a speech that covers...

I have been going over the speeches of Barack Obama, and found some real jewels.  I started reading a speech given to Congress hesitant to use it in a podcast episode because it was almost 50 minutes long.  But by the end of the ad...